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still_one

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Sat Feb 13, 2016, 12:06 PM Feb 2016

Kentucky lawmaker’s bill would require men to get a note from their wives to purchase Viagra [View all]

"Fed up with laws restricting a woman’s right to choose, a Kentucky lawmaker has proposed new restrictions on men wanting to obtain erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, saying she was doing it “to protect these men from themselves.”

According to the Courier-Journal, Rep. Mary Lou Marzian, a Louisville Democrat, is sponsoring House Bill 396 in an effort to protect men’s health and ensure they are completely informed about a drug with potentially dangerous side effects.

Under Marzian’s bill, only married men would be able to obtain the drug and it would require “a man to make a sworn statement with his hand on a Bible that he will only use a prescription for a drug for erectile dysfunction when having sexual relations with his current spouse.”

According to the lawmaker, who is also a nurse, “This is about family values.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/kentucky-lawmakers-bill-would-require-men-to-get-a-note-from-their-wives-to-purchase-viagra/

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